REMAINER attempts to plot a second Brexit referendum have been branded "pathetic" by a leading eurosceptic.

Kate Hoey, the Labour MP for Vauxhall, blasted comments from Professor Vernon Bogdanor who claimed the General Election “changed everything” and the final Brexit deal “may have to go back to the people” - prompting fears among Leave voters that Britain could remain in the European Union after all.

Professor Bogdanor, a professor of government at King’s College London, who taught politics to former Prime Minister David Cameron, warned a second referendum on Britain's EU membership could be inevitable.

But a furious Ms Hoey hit back, describing Remainers demands a "last dying plea" and declaring the British people will "reject this pathetic attempt to undermine Brexit".

Ms Hoey told Express.co.uk: “The demand for another referendum is the last dying plea of those who will do anything to stop the UK leaving the EU in March 2019.

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Kate Hoey has slapped down rumours of a second Brexit referendum

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Remainers are finding it hard to accept Brexit.

“The Liberal establishment cannot accept that their views on the benefits of EU membership are not shared by the majority of the British people. We voted to Leave and the detail of our leaving is not the subject for a referendum.

“Those who call for another referendum are playing the long established European Commission game of making people vote until they come up with the right answer.

“The British people will reject this pathetic attempt to undermine Brexit."

Ms Hoey lashed out as Professor Bogdanor suggested the uncertainty surrounding the ongoing negotiations means “the ultimate choice we face is either “hard Brexit or remain” in a comment piece for the Guardian.

He said: “Britain will be negotiating, therefore, for a free trade agreement in a 'hard' Brexit. But, sadly, our negotiating position may not be very powerful.

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“If one leaves a tennis club because one does not wish to pay the subscription and does not like the rules yet still wishes to play tennis, one’s leverage is not strong.

“Some British politicians suffer from an imperial reflex, however. For them, Britain lies at the centre of the world. We only have to state our aims and other countries will be generous enough to help us achieve them.

“Last year Brexiteers argued that Britain should leave an EU composed of ill-intentioned foreigners whose interests were in conflict with its own. This year it has been magically transformed into a charitable institution that can be relied on to safeguard our interests.”

Professor Bogdanor said the loss of Theresa May’s parliamentary majority in June means the issue of Europe has been reopened because there is no Commons majority for the Prime Minister’s interpretation of Brexit.

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He also argues Labour’s electoral gains in June mean last year’s referendum decision may not actually be final, and that the election increased divisions within both parties which could leave the Commons deadlocked on what type of Brexit deal Britain wants.

Professor Bogdanor believes the House of Commons could prove a difficult hurdle given that the pro-Remain peers are likely to argue that a minority government has no mandate for a hard Brexit.

He said: “With a deadlocked parliament, the possibility of an unfavourable deal and both parties so deeply divided on Europe, it may start to appear that the only way out of the impasse is a second referendum in which the government’s deal is put it to the people for legitimation.

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“Brexit after all raises fundamental, indeed existential, issues for the future of the country. That is why the final deal needs the consent not only of parliament, but of a sovereign people.”

The piece provoked a huge response on social media.

One Twitter user wrote: “And they say democracy is dead? Just keep going until you get the answer you want??

"Why bother getting people to vote at all?”

However, another branded it “a logical and sensible step provided the electorate are educated to vote rationally rather than emotionally”.